Akram Khan performs a short solo, focussing on his kathak tradition, the classical dance form from North India. Patri Satish Kumar, a musician from the great carnatic tradition performs with Triplicane Sekar on the Tavil (the first time this South Asian percussion instrument has featured in the festival) and Amrit on khanjira. Pravin Godkhindi and Supreet Deshpande follow with ragas - one of the key structures of Indian music, on basuri flute and tabla, India's iconic percussion drums.

At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see a mysterious white rabbit. When she follows it down a hole, things get curiouser and curiouser...

Alice encounters a cast of extraordinary and instantly recognizable characters, from the highly strung Queen of Hearts - who performs a hilarious send-up of The Sleeping Beauty's famous Rose Adage - to a playing card corps de ballet, a sinuous caterpillar and a tap-dancing Mad Hatter. But the ballet does not avoid the darker undercurrents of Lewis Carroll's story: a nightmarish kitchen, an eerily disembodied Cheshire Cat and the unhinged tea party are all here in vivid detail. The delicious result shows The Royal Ballet at its best, bringing together world-class dance with enchanting family entertainment. Performance includes 2 intervals.

Whether you know Arlene from Hot Gossip or as the toughest judge on Strictly Come Dancing, prepare to be surprised and entertained by the stories behind the multi-award winning musicals, the music videos, the TV shows, the films and many more dance extravaganzas.

Celebrated director and choreographer Arthur Pita returns to the Lilian Baylis Studio this Christmas with his magical dance theatre show. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's classic story, this tale of a young street girl's hopes and dreams is told through dance, song and original music performed live. Our unlikely heroine is an impoverished girl, who wanders the ever-darkening streets with just one final match to keep her warm on a cold Christmas Eve. The Little Match Girl is a timeless fable about kindness and helping others, which will enthral young children and the whole family alike.

Backlash Ballroom is a dance spectacular featuring five professional Ballroom & Latin couples. These couples are World, European & National champions in dance and will be joined by two professional singers. Featuring costumes from the 2016 series of Strictly Come Dancing (kindly provided by DSI), this is a night to remember with dances such as the Waltz, the Quick Step, The Argentine Tango & The Charleston to name just a few. Featuring a wonderful sound track and gorgeous lighting and special effects.

Michael Nunn and William Trevitt - former dancers with The Royal Ballet - founded their all-male company Balletboyz in 2000. The company has since won multiple awards and has produced several acclaimed television projects, including The Rough Guide to Choreography (Channel 4), The Royal Ballet in Cuba (More4) and Balletboyz: The Rite of Spring (BBC Three), as well as creating the digital work for Christopher Wheeldon's Electric Counterpoint (The Royal Ballet).

BalletBoyz is back with an exciting quartet of new works that demonstrate the range and ability of these versatile dancers. Choreographers Javier de Frutos, Craig Revel Horwood, Ivan Perez and Christopher Wheeldon have teamed up with composers Scott Walker, Charlotte Harding, Joby Talbot and Keaton Henson to create their pieces. Fallen forms the second half of the evening, choreographed by Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Russell Maliphant and is set to a powerful score by French film composer Armand Amar. Fallen won the award for Best Modern Choreography at the 2013 National Dance Awards and features lighting by Michael Hulls.

Michael Nunn and William Trevitt - former dancers with The Royal Ballet - founded their all-male company Balletboyz in 2000. The company has since won multiple awards and has produced several acclaimed television projects, including The Rough Guide to Choreography (Channel 4), The Royal Ballet in Cuba (More4) and Balletboyz: The Rite of Spring (BBC Three), as well as creating the digital work for Christopher Wheeldon's Electric Counterpoint (The Royal Ballet).

BalletBoyz is back with an exciting quartet of new works that demonstrate the range and ability of these versatile dancers. Choreographers Javier de Frutos, Craig Revel Horwood, Ivan Perez and Christopher Wheeldon have teamed up with composers Scott Walker, Charlotte Harding, Joby Talbot and Keaton Henson to create their pieces. Fallen forms the second half of the evening, choreographed by Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Russell Maliphant and is set to a powerful score by French film composer Armand Amar. Fallen won the award for Best Modern Choreography at the 2013 National Dance Awards and features lighting by Michael Hulls.

A cave of riches is waiting to be explored in David Bintley's production of the classic story of Aladdin and his adventures with the magic lamp. Boasting a score by BAFTA award-winning composer Carl Davis, played live by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, this performance features lavish sets and costumes, special effects and a larger-than-life Chinese lion. Birmingham Royal Ballet's triple bill hosts a mixed programme of new work and much-loved pieces. The ancient god Pan is unleashed in Birmingham Royal Ballet's first artist Ruth Brill's Arcadia, created to a score from saxophonist John Harle. Michael Corder's Le Baiser de la fee is a beautiful interpretation of this classic fairy tale. Finally, a morris-dancing flea, a ballroom dancing ram and many more endangered animals seek shelter from the storm in David Bintley's 'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe.

A triple bill of new and much loved pieces, beginning with Arcadia - the ancient god Pan is unleashed in Birmingham Royal Ballet's first artist Ruth Brill's new work, with a new score by saxophonist John Harle. Michael Corder's Le Baiser de la f?e is a beautiful interpretation of this classic fairy-tale. Finally, a morris-dancing flea, a ballroom-dancing ram and many more endangered animals seek shelter from the storm at the Penguin Cafe

2017-11-03

2017-11-04

Birmingham Royal Ballet - Arcadia/Le Baiser de la fee/Still Life at the Penguin Cafe

Concerto marked the start of a new phase in Kenneth MacMillan's career. He had recently become director of Berlin's Deutsche Oper Ballet, and was keen to redefine the company and showcase its full range. He selected a score of youthful vivacity - Dmitry Shostakovich's Piano Concerto no.2 in F, which was created to mark the 19th birthday of the composer's son. Concerto was greeted with a standing ovation on its premiere in 1966 and MacMillan received immediate performance requests from ballet companies worldwide. MacMillan's choreography complements the precision and invention of Shostakovich's score perfectly. In the energetic first movement, the corps de ballet marches en pointe in unison, in response to a military flourish in the music. A slow, sensuous Andante follows, featuring a pas de deux that was inspired by seeing Lynn Seymour, MacMillan's friend and muse, warming up at the barre. The final movement brings the work to a spirited close, with a large corps de ballet dancing with quick, joyous steps. Jurgen Rose's bright designs confirm the ballet's warmth and energy.

A vibrant and engaging show about migration and the search for home, using a multiplicity of languages - spoken, sung, played, and danced. Set in a car park, this promenade show is performed by six actor-dancers. The audience is invited to come on a journey; to step inside many different pairs of shoes as they witness a performance that evolves from, then disappears into, thin air.

The Clod Ensemble makes compelling work through the alchemy of theatre, music and physical comedy.

In a promenade performance, the audience moves through a space that is at once medical laboratory, museum exhibit and gallery, where dancers are kept like specimens in glass containers. This dream-like walk takes characters out of their everyday life and frames their moments of solitude; examining human beings attempting, with varying success, to live within their limits.

Company Wayne McGregor is a Resident Company of Sadler's Wells and winner of the South Bank Show Award for Dance, The International Theatre Institute's Award for Excellence in International Dance, The Movimentos Award and the Critics' Circle Award.

The visionary contemporary choreographer Wayne McGregor has led his company onto ever more radical and challenging innovations. With Sadler's Wells Resident Company, Company Wayne McGregor, he embarks on his boldest and most intimate collaboration to date, as he allows world-leading geneticists to sequence his entire genome. His personal biological archaeology laid bare will dramatically alter McGregor's viewpoint on his own life-story, tracing patterns back into the ancestral past of our species and illuminating what creates our individuality. Combining memoir, documentary and a re-processing of nature's code through an act of human imagination, this new work charts McGregor's adventure into his autobiography, and asks how to understand a life.

Liz Lerman, Institute Professor at Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, is well known as a choreographer, author, MacArthur ?genius' Fellow, founder of Dance Exchange and creator of the popular Critical Response Process. Launching the Dance Umbrella Lecture series, Lerman will consider the different ways we watch theatre and dance, and examine where we find strength and resonance as art-makers and art-watchers. Lerman takes real situations as starting points for her creations ? the American Civil War, ageing, physics at CERN, microbiology ? to travel far beyond reality, constructing performances that are personal, funny, and intellectually vivid. After the lecture there will be a Q&A with Steven Hoggett, Movement Director for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Part of Dance Umbrella. This event takes place in the Cottesloe Room

2017-10-11

2017-10-11

Dance Umbrella - Lecture: Liz Lerman

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Between two heartbeats, the light creeps closer and closer to your number. It won't be everyone, it can't be everyone tonight, but it might be you. Someone is looking for their teeth, someone else is in brilliant pain, all of them are spinning like gods and then something happens that is irreversible.

2017-09-07

2017-09-30

Deadclub

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Kenneth MacMillan first heard Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in 1958. He immediately fell in love with Mahler's elegiac score and determined to set it for ballet. He created his Song of the Earth in 1965 for Stuttgart Ballet, on the invitation of his friend John Cranko. The ballet was instantly acclaimed and The Royal Ballet took the piece into its repertory only six months after the Stuttgart premiere. MacMillan introduced a narrative thread to the piece's six movements, drawing on imagery from Hans Bethge's translation of the six Tang dynasty-era poems used by Mahler. Marcia Hayd?e created the role of the woman, a figure of loneliness isolated from the movements of the corps de ballet around her. In MacMillan's hands Death becomes a gentle, ever-present companion. Earthbound, non-classical movements morph seamlessly into modernist curves in a work of breathtaking beauty and power.

2017-10-24

2017-11-01

English National Ballet - Kenneth MacMillan: a National Celebration - Song of the Earth

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort - Last performed by English National Ballet in 2013, Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort follows a young man hopelessly in love with a cruel and faithless mistress. He waits desperately for her, but when she finally arrives, she torments him. Distraught and confused, the young man succumbs to his despair. Performed to Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, with a libretto by Jean Cocteau, Petit's ballet is a searing display of unrequited love and its tragic consequences. La Sylphide - On the morning of his wedding to his sweet fianc?e Effy, James awakens from a dream to see a mysterious and tantalising Sylphide before him. His obsession with her sets off a fateful sequence of events where joy turns to sorrow, love to betrayal and infatuation to tragedy.

2018-01-16

2018-01-20

English National Ballet - Le Jeune Homeme et la Mort/La Sylphide

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Song of the Earth - Inspired by Mahler's haunting song cycle Das Lied von der Erde, MacMillan brings music, poetry and choreography together to capture the fragility of life, and its constant renewal. Three central figures portray the bittersweet reality of love, loss, and mortality: a Woman, a Man and an enigmatic Messenger. First performed in 1965, Song of the Earth was a point of departure for MacMillan's choreography, surprising and captivating audiences and critics. English National Ballet is honoured to add this revered MacMillan work to its repertoire. La Sylphide - On the morning of his wedding to his sweet fianc?e Effy, James awakens from a dream to see a mysterious and tantalising Sylphide before him. His obsession with her sets off a fateful sequence of events where joy turns to sorrow, love to betrayal and infatuation to tragedy. August Bournonville's classic Romantic ballet is devotedly recreated by Eva Kloborg and Frank Andersen in this captivating production, and is accompanied by an enchanting score, played live by English National Ballet Philharmonic.

2018-01-09

2018-01-13

English National Ballet - Song of the Earth/La Sylphide

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Eun-Me Ahn was born and raised in Korea, and continued her training in New York. In recent years she has enjoyed Europe-wide success including multiple invitations to her great friend Pina Bausch's Wuppertal Festival.

Eun-Me Ahn is recognised as one of Asia's most irreverent yet sophisticated dance makers. Let Me Change Your Name embodies the wit and choreographic complexity of her work. Moving from deep solemnity through to nonchalant exhibitionism and psychedelic abandon, nine dancers play with ideas of identity and androgyny helped by their interchangeable neon costumes. This surreal treat is set to a score of natural and composed sounds by Young-Gyu Jang.

Part of Dance Umbrella

2017-10-24

2017-10-25

Eun-Me Ahn Company - Let Me Change Your Name

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First produced in 1841 at the Paris Opera, Giselle is perhaps the best known and most poignant ballet of the Romantic era. Set in a medieval Rhineland village, it tells of Giselle, a naive peasant girl, who is driven to suicide when deceived by her aristocratic lover, Albrecht. Filled with remorse, Albrecht visits her moonlit grave where he is condemned to death by ghostly spirits - the Wilis. However Giselle's love for Albrecht transcends death and she protects him until sunrise destroys the Wilis power and he is saved.

First produced in 1841 at the Paris Opera, Giselle is perhaps the best known and most poignant ballet of the Romantic era. Set in a medieval Rhineland village, it tells of Giselle, a naive peasant girl, who is driven to suicide when deceived by her aristocratic lover, Albrecht. Filled with remorse, Albrecht visits her moonlit grave where he is condemned to death by ghostly spirits - the Wilis. However Giselle's love for Albrecht transcends death and she protects him until sunrise destroys the Wilis power and he is saved.

Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Hofesh Shechter is one of the UK's most exciting contemporary artists, having gained international renown for his raw, honest choreography and highly-charged, atmospheric music scores. The international dancers of Hofesh Shechter Company have achieved worldwide renown

UK Premiere. Internationally-acclaimed artist Hofesh Shechter has created a new genre: Part dance, part gig, part theatre and wholly original, his work has its own instantly identifiable and entirely unique voice. Grand Finale is the highly anticipated new show from ?One of the British dance scene's hottest properties? (New York Times) and comes to Sadler's Wells as part of an extensive world tour. Performed by a ten-strong tribe of world-class dancers and accompanied by a live band, Grand Finale combines a cacophonic score and richly theatrical set and costume design with the anarchic energy of Shechter's choreography to portray a world in freefall.

Hood is a contemporary ballet with original music, based on a modern adaptation of two beloved German stories: Faust and Little Red Riding Hood. Featuring Tchaikovsky-esque electroacoustic music, theatrical dance, string quartets and elements of cabaret, Hood examines the relevance of tradition in our society through temptation and the taboo

A unique experience, +/- Human fuses an immersive installation with incredible live dance and music performances. Created in response to the magnificent space of the Roundhouse +/- Human brings together multi award-winning choreographer and director, Wayne McGregor, with contemporary art collective Random International, creators of the globally successful Rain Room, along with new music from Warp Records.

Iceland Dance Company (IDC) is the national dance company of Iceland. Established in 1973, IDC is an independent public institution responsible for developing, creating and nurturing contemporary dance and choreography in Iceland.

An ambitious festival where dance, visual art, music and theater form a coherent world.

Twyla Tharp occupies a rare position in choreography: she is as much an innovator of contemporary dance and theatre as she is a major ballet choreographer. She has created more than 160 works for dance companies, film and Broadway. She now makes a long overdue return to The Royal Ballet - more than twenty years after her first work for Covent Garden - to create a new work, The Illustrated 'Farewell', that returns to and expands upon 1973's As Time Goes By. In As Time Goes By Tharp set the final movements of Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony. For The Illustrated 'Farewell' she completes the symphony by setting the first two movements, creating a ?prequel' to her era-defining work from 1973.

A rare chance to see two internationally acclaimed dance artists. Kathak dancer Aditi Mangaldas, and bharatanatyam soloist Mavin Khoo who performs with vocalist OS Arun, plus one of India's most distinctive sitarists of her generation Shahana Banerjee with Supreet Deshpande on tabla.

Set on a disused piece of land, this immersive performance invites us to re-imagine how we value our landscape, homes and communities. As day dips into night you're given headphones and offered instructions amidst a constantly shifting soundscape that is delicate and thoughtful one moment, infectious and playful the next. Many worlds are created, destroyed and re-purposed in a playground built by everyone.

Charlotte Spencer Projects work in unusual spaces in order to open up new forms of conversation. Their Walking Stories was a hit of DU 2015, and we invite you to re-enter their intelligent and transformative world. An outdoor performance so dress for October and in comfortable shoes.

Part of Dance Umbrella. This event takes place at Silvertown Quays E16 1UR Pontoon Dock DLR

UK Premiere. One of the most original Belgian choreographers of his generation, Jan Martens present his new work RULE OF THREE. Falling somewhere between concert and short stories, it features American drummer NAH performing live with three dancers to recreate the atmosphere of a nightclub. Rhythm, light and movement accumulate, before being stripped back in an untamed meditation.

Jasmin Vardimon Company (JVC) is one of Britain's most pioneering physical dance theatre companies, creating work that excites both the eye and the mind by pushing the boundaries of human physicality whilst engaging in universal, contemporary themes that strike an emotional chord. Vardimon's powerful art of story-telling integrates multiple layers of communication - combining dance, movement, video, animation, text and music. Her sharp instincts and keen observations of human behaviour deliver beautifully precise characterisation, powerfully brought to life by her company of versatile dancers. Cast from around the world, each performer brings his/her own unique experience, with dynamic results.

World Premiere. Showcasing Vardimon's uniquely theatrical choreographic and directorial style, Pinocchio will combine physical theatre, quirky characterisation, innovative technologies, text and dance to examine the idea of what it means to be human. With insightful humour, engaging drama and an acute observation of behaviour, Pinocchio will take audiences on a wonderful journey of discovery through the parameters of this timeless and beloved fable.

UK Premiere. On The Habit of Being Oneself is an arresting dance experiment enticing us to pay attention to what dancing does. On a stripped back stage, seven exceptional dancers relentlessly navigate complex choreographic puzzles. The result is a challenging yet immediate encounter with dancers and dancing. A new solo and film installation open the evening. Joe Moran creates work concerned with dance's potential as a contemporary art form, both in theatres and galleries and is currently a Sadler's Wells Summer University artist.

One of Britain's most unusual and ambitious new circus companies, Joli Vyann was founded in 2012 by Olivia Quayle and Jan Patzke. In the same year it won the National Theatre's Watch This Space and Stockton International Riverside G120 scheme.

Integrating exciting acrobatic skills with athletic dance in an energetic and thought-provoking performance that explores our obsessive dependence with technology, asking whether our lives are ?in' or ?out' of balance? It is rare nowadays not to ?log in' at every opportunity- the breakfast table, nights out with friends, even in bed! How well connected are you? When and how do we separate ourselves from the virtual chaos surrounding us? Created by Joli Vyann and Jonathan Lunn.

After presenting Twelve, Jorge Crecis' choreography created for Acosta Danza in Sadler's Wells this September, we have the pleasure of announcing that Jorge Crecis will be bringing his piece Through and Out? to the Cervantes Theatre for one night only. Through & Out? is an installation/athletic performance, which combine dance, science, new technology, music and text. The performance is driven by a compelling ?noir like' narrative text through which the performer expresses his memories, emotions and desires.

http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/shows/jungle-book_132632/Jungle Book

This spectacular new production from the award-winning Metta Theatre brings Kipling's classic tale crashing into the 21st Century with breathtaking street dance and circus. Mowgli is finding her way in the urban jungle. With a beat-boxing bin man Baloo, graffiti artist Bagheera and a skateboarding Wolf crew, this heart-warming coming of age story will astonish and amaze. Choreographed by Kendra J Horsburgh (Into The Hoods, Sadler's Wells and Blaze, International Tour) and featuring jaw-dropping tricks from an extraordinary cast of performers from Zoo Nation and Cirque du Soleil, this is a show for everyone from 8 to 108.

Sadler's Wells Debut offers a chance to discover the work of choreographers new to Sadler's Wells, highlighting rising artists on the international dance scene with a special ticket price and a free post-show talk. This season introduces New York based dancer and choreographer Kyle Abraham, who combines balletic and hip hop movements in his trademark, interdisciplinary style, which he typically refers to as a 'post-modern gumbo'. He has created work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and New York City Ballet's Wendy Whelan, as well as for his own company Abraham.In.Motion, who perform at Sadler's Wells for the first time. Inspired by the 1991 John Singleton film, Boyz N The Hood, the writings of American civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois and Abraham's own childhood, Pavement takes seven dancers through a culture plagued by discrimination and genocide in Pittsburgh's historically black neighbourhoods, set to an eclectic mix of Bach, Benjamin Britten, Sam Cooke and Donny Hathaway.

Three acclaimed choreographers each create inimitable dance works to the same piece of music, Beethoven's Grande Fugue op. 133. Lucinda Childs' interpretation exemplifies her meticulous precision and cool, complex classicism. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker responds with an uninhibited, masculine and non-classical vocabulary, whilst Maguy Marin creates an exhilarating whirlwind where life is reduced to a race against death. Trois Grandes Fugues marks a welcome return for the world class dancers of Lyon Opera Ballet who last performed at Sadler's Wells more than a decade ago.

The ballet explores the relationship between love, sex and the corrupting power of money. In the courtyard of an inn near Paris, the Chevalier Des Grieux encounters the young, provocative Manon Lescaut. For both of them, it is love at first sight - but Ges Grieux has not counted on Manon's fascination with luxury, nor on her brother's determination to exploit her beauty for his own ends.

London 1940...The Blackout... a siren sounds... New Adventures' production of Cinderella is a thrilling and evocative journey through London during the Second World War. Matthew Bourne's interpretation of Prokofiev's haunting score has, at its heart, a true wartime romance. A chance meeting results in a magical night for Cinderella and her dashing young RAF pilot, together just long enough to fall in love before being parted by the horrors of the Blitz. First seen in the West End in 1997.

For centuries, troublesome, disobedient and independent women have been labelled: witch. Today this term is being re-appropriated. In HUNTED, up and coming French choreographer Maud Le Pladec collaborates with New York writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili to create a chant of words and movement, with music by one of Finland's foremost contemporary composers, Kalevi Aho. Performed in London by Doroth?e Munyaneza, this powerful solo uses storytelling and ritual.

http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/shows/men-in-motion_126822/Men in Motion

Award-winning dancers Matthew Ball, Irek Mukhamedov, Daniel Proietto and Edward Watson are among those joining dancer and producer Ivan Putrov in a new production of his thrilling and illuminating exploration of the changing role of the male dancer over the last century. Men in Motion pays homage to the great dancers and choreographers of the past and showcases some of the most exciting artists at work today.

2017-11-22

2017-11-23

Men in Motion

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Acclaimed American choreographer Meg Stuart's UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP is inspired by people who create their own, fantastical rules as they retreat from real life. This is a rare chance to experience this major artist at the forefront of choreographic development, coming for the first time to the Sadler's Wells stage. Six performers and three musicians find themselves in a place that is both a nightclub and an arena, a place of desire and illusion. To the sound of throbbing basses, piano and drums, they connect with and explore each other, and draw the audience into their immersive world.

After its sell-out success last year, critical acclaim and Best Production award-win at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Michael Keegan-Dolan's magical adaptation of one of the most famous ballets in the world returns to Sadler's Wells. Performed by a company of 13 world-class performers including actor Mikel Murfi, Swan Lake/Loch na hEala is interwoven with storytelling, song and live music. Dublin based band Slow Moving Cloud's score combines Nordic and Irish traditional music with minimalist and experimental influences. With powerful imagery, this Swan Lake is rooted in the Midlands of Ireland where ancient mythology and the modern world collide.

The Dreamers Ever Leave You is Robert Binet's captivating response to the paintings of legendary Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris. Harris' work is famous not just for distilling the austere beauty of Canada's northern landscapes, but for conveying the deep, almost mystical power that those landscapes hold. In his ballet, Binet seeks to replicate that same spiritual energy through the controlled physicality of the human body. The National Ballet of Canada and The Royal Ballet will collaborate in a unique performance of The Dreamers Ever Leave You in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation. The ballet will make its UK premiere and will be performed by dancers from both companies in the vast industrial space of The Printworks, Canada Water in London.

2017-10-11

2017-10-13

National Ballet of Canada - The Dreamers Ever Leave You

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Kenneth MacMillan's Gloria is a haunting lament for the generation lost in World War I. It was inspired by Vera Brittain's autobiography Testament of Youth, which recounts the author's wartime experiences and grief at the loss of her fiance and brother. The book resonated strongly with MacMillan, whose own father was gassed at the Battle of the Somme. Gloria was created for The Royal Ballet in 1980 and is a major work of the repertory; its depiction of the futility of war is as relevant and painful today as at the time of its creation.

This enchanting story tells the tale of how Clara is given a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas present by Dr Drosselmeyer. During the Christmas party Clara and her brother Fritz fight over the nutcracker doll. Later that night Clara wakes and looks for the Nutcracker doll. When the clock strikes twelve, giant mice appear and fight with the toy soldiers. The nutcracker doll comes to life and joins in the battle. Clara finally kills the King Mouse with her shoe and The Nutcracker Doll is transformed into a handsome prince who takes Clara through the land of snow to the Kingdom of Sweet and the Palace of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

This enchanting story tells the tale of how Clara is given a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas present by Dr Drosselmeyer. During the Christmas party Clara and her brother Fritz fight over the nutcracker doll. Later that night Clara wakes and looks for the Nutcracker doll. When the clock strikes twelve, giant mice appear and fight with the toy soldiers. The nutcracker doll comes to life and joins in the battle. Clara finally kills the King Mouse with her shoe and The Nutcracker Doll is transformed into a handsome prince who takes Clara through the land of snow to the Kingdom of Sweet and the Palace of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

2017-12-13

2018-01-06

Nutcracker

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This enchanting story tells the tale of how Clara is given a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas present by Dr Drosselmeyer. During the Christmas party Clara and her brother Fritz fight over the nutcracker doll. Later that night Clara wakes and looks for the Nutcracker doll. When the clock strikes twelve, giant mice appear and fight with the toy soldiers. The nutcracker doll comes to life and joins in the battle. Clara finally kills the King Mouse with her shoe and The Nutcracker Doll is transformed into a handsome prince who takes Clara through the land of snow to the Kingdom of Sweet and the Palace of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

This enchanting story tells the tale of how Clara is given a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas present by Dr Drosselmeyer. During the Christmas party Clara and her brother Fritz fight over the nutcracker doll. Later that night Clara wakes and looks for the Nutcracker doll. When the clock strikes twelve, giant mice appear and fight with the toy soldiers. The nutcracker doll comes to life and joins in the battle. Clara finally kills the King Mouse with her shoe and The Nutcracker Doll is transformed into a handsome prince who takes Clara through the land of snow to the Kingdom of Sweet and the Palace of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

2017-12-28

2017-12-31

Nutcracker

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This enchanting story tells the tale of how Clara is given a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas present by Dr Drosselmeyer. During the Christmas party Clara and her brother Fritz fight over the nutcracker doll. Later that night Clara wakes and looks for the Nutcracker doll. When the clock strikes twelve, giant mice appear and fight with the toy soldiers. The nutcracker doll comes to life and joins in the battle. Clara finally kills the King Mouse with her shoe and The Nutcracker Doll is transformed into a handsome prince who takes Clara through the land of snow to the Kingdom of Sweet and the Palace of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

UK Premiere. Movement, video and sound combine in Pepa Ubera and Josefina Camus' duet Ellipsis Land as they explore the relationship between the body and the technology surrounding it. They invite us to consider the body as a container of energy in a sensorial set up, heightening our perceptions. With an original sound score by Simone Salvaticci creating an ambient immersive landscape, they aim to awaken unnoticed connections between the concrete and the digital. This is a development of the work presented in Sadler's Wells Wild Card curated by Ubera in 2016. She is currently a Sadler's Wells Summer University artist.

After an epic opening of determinedly false starts a series of impassioned solos follows, but nothing is quite what it seems. Solid sculptures start to move, gentle spinning becomes a dangerous compulsion, and calm is interrupted. It is Annie Hanauer and Lora Juodkaite's distinctive physicalities that finally unite them in these raw and captivating self-portraits, threaded with emotion. French Algerian Rachid Ouramdane is co-director of CCN2-Centre chor?graphique national de Grenoble. His work frequently blurs the lines between dance and documentary, between public performance and private contemplation - achieved here with a refreshing simplicity of means.

A triple bill of dynamic new talents with international star of bharatanatyam, Mythili Prakash and noted kathak performer Dheerandra Tiwari, plus a music concert by the remarkable Debasmita Bhattacharya on the emotive sarod joined by Gurdain Rayatt on tabla.

Britain's biggest and most exciting touring dance company who often tour two programmes at a time. Dancing to a mixture of musical styles they provide enormously watchable evenings.

Itzik Galili's party piece for Rambert returns to Sadler's Wells for a percussion-fuelled carnival of dance. 28 dancers, four samba drummers and a dazzling light show contribute to its infectious energy. Rising star Ben Duke's dance theatre creation is inspired by the music and spirit of Nina Simone, with a selection of her best-loved songs performed live on stage. The programme also features a celebration of the dancers' virtuosity choreographed by Andonis Foniadakis, director of Greek National Opera Ballet, with a newly commissioned score by Ilan Eshkeri.

Britain's biggest and most exciting touring dance company who often tour two programmes at a time. Dancing to a mixture of musical styles they provide enormously watchable evenings.

Itzik Galili's party piece for Rambert returns to Sadler's Wells for a percussion-fuelled carnival of dance. 28 dancers, four samba drummers and a dazzling light show contribute to its infectious energy. Rising star Ben Duke's dance theatre creation is inspired by the music and spirit of Nina Simone, with a selection of her best-loved songs performed live on stage. The programme also features a celebration of the dancers' virtuosity choreographed by Andonis Foniadakis, director of Greek National Opera Ballet, with a newly commissioned score by Ilan Eshkeri.

Since 2015 2Faced Dance Company, in partnership with Arts Council England and The British Council, have been developing work with female choreographers in India, as part of their Re: Imagine India Fund. The work that has been created will be presented in RE: IMAGINE INDIA

2017-10-03

2017-10-03

Re: Imagine India - Outlands

The Place TheatreThe Place Theatrehttp://www.whatsonstage.com/inner-london/theatres/the-place-theatre_1119

Get ready to step back in time and relive special moments from the career of dancing extraordinaire, Fred Astaire. The ?Remembering Fred Tour' will take you on a magical journey of dance, live music and entertainment supported by special appearances from various celebrity guests. Strictly Come Dancing stars Aljaz and Janette will be performing steps and turns from the golden age of Hollywood's most celebrated dance routines. Audiences will hear from famous Fred fans including Twiggy, Darcey Bussell, Don Black and Bruce Oldfield who will share stories of how the screen icon touched their lives and discuss what made him so special. Remembering Fred will feature songs such as They Can't Take That Away From Me, Night & Day, S'Wonderful, Cheek To Cheek, Puttin' On The Ritz, Let's Face The Music & Dance, The Way You Look Tonight, Top Hat, White Tie & Tail and many others.

http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/shows/rip-it-up_132947/Rip It Up

The dancers will swing, bop, jitterbug, lindy hop, jive and ballroom through the greatest songs from the greatest decade of music! The music in the show spans various styles from romantic ballads and crooner songs through to classic pop hits and the shattering world of rock 'n' roll. Includes: Smile, Mona Lisa, Cry, Unforgettable, When I Fall In Love, One For My Baby, Wonderful World, Mambo Italiano, Fly Me To The Moon, Young & Foolish, My Baby Just Cares, That'll Be The Day, Summertime Blues, Only You, The Great Pretender, Fools Fall In Love, You Send Me, Hound Dog, Bye Bye Love, C'Mon Everybody, I Only Have Eyes For You. The Greatest Songs from The Greatest Decade!

2017-09-30

2017-09-30

Rip It Up

London PalladiumLondon Palladiumhttp://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end/theatres/london-palladium_1269

http://www.whatsonstage.com/outer-london-theatre/shows/rip-it-up_132955/Rip It Up

The dancers will swing, bop, jitterbug, lindy hop, jive and ballroom through the greatest songs from the greatest decade of music! The music in the show spans various styles from romantic ballads and crooner songs through to classic pop hits and the shattering world of rock 'n' roll. Includes: Smile, Mona Lisa, Cry, Unforgettable, When I Fall In Love, One For My Baby, Wonderful World, Mambo Italiano, Fly Me To The Moon, Young & Foolish, My Baby Just Cares, That'll Be The Day, Summertime Blues, Only You, The Great Pretender, Fools Fall In Love, You Send Me, Hound Dog, Bye Bye Love, C'Mon Everybody, I Only Have Eyes For You. The Greatest Songs from The Greatest Decade!

A world-class exponent of flamenco, Roc?o Molina has established a reputation for her remarkable dancing, rare in its beauty, formidable technique and expressive freedom. Dedicated to the progression of her art form, she develops work with a 21st-century outlook, embracing the possibilities of sound and music in unexpected ways.

In her latest work Fallen from Heaven (Ca?da del Cielo), Molina takes us on a very personal journey through womanhood. With designs ranging from a virginal confection, to matador jackets, to some inventive uses of leather, the piece is at times intensely raw and at others extremely witty. Molina's Olivier nominated Bosque Ardora was one of the hits of DU2014 and we are delighted to welcome her back. A study in concentration and technique, Molina's flamenco is physically exhausting and she is not afraid to show it.

The evening will include the spectacular classic Don Quixote and classical divertissements to music from significant composers including S.Prokofiev, L.Minkus, S. Rachmaninov and P. Tchaikovsky. A new work, especially created for these wonderful dancers, will be premiered and the performance will be accompanied by award winning musicians.

2017-09-18

2017-09-18

Romantic Revolution

London PalladiumLondon Palladiumhttp://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end/theatres/london-palladium_1269

In 2008, Birmingham based choreographer Rosie Kay joined the 4th Battalion The Rifles, to watch and participate in full battle exercises, and visited the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre for our Armed Forces. What came of these observations is an award-winning, five-star work, performed offsite at Yeomanry House, Bloomsbury. 5 SOLDIERS offers no moral stance on war. Instead, through Kay's trademark intense physical and athletic dance theatre, it questions what it is that we ask of our soldiers and explores how the human body remains essential to war, even in the 21st century,

The Royal Ballet performs Jeux as part of Kenneth MacMillan: a National Celebration, a festival bringing together leading British dance companies to celebrate MacMillan's legacy, on the 25th anniversary of his death. The pioneering Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky created Jeux in 1913, to a wonderful commissioned score by Debussy. As with Nijinsky's scandalous ballet The Rite of Spring from the same year, the original choreography for Jeux has been lost ? but in 1980, for Herbert Ross's film Nijinsky, Kenneth MacMillan reconstructed elements of both ballets, drawing on photographs and his own choreographic sensibility to construct a living idea of Nijinsky's original.

In 1974 Kenneth MacMillan created the perfect antidote to the blues with Elite Syncopations - as he told the New Yorker at the time, ?Something short and light and funny'. The resulting 35-minute ballet, using onstage music from ragtime composers including Scott Joplin, is as luridly lewd as it is sassily sophisticated, and has become a staple of the repertory.

On a building site in London's *East End, the Foreman's jealousy and betrayal bring about events of appalling violence. Kenneth MacMillan's The Judas Tree is his final ballet, and still his most controversial. MacMillan commissioned a score from Brian Elias for the ballet, which had its premiere in 1992. Both MacMillan and Elias were inspired not only by Biblical stories of betrayal but also by contemporary events - the violence in Tiananmen Square; the creation of the financial district in Canary Wharf. As MacMillan admitted of the finished work, 'There are things in me that are untapped and that have come out in this ballet that I find frightening'.

2017-10-26

2017-10-27

Royal Ballet - Kenneth MacMillan: a National Celebration - The Judas Tree

The shepherd Aminta has fallen for the nymph Sylvia. As a disciple of the goddess Diana, she rejects his advances - until Eros intervenes... Sylvia and Aminta defy the jealous hunter Orion's attempts to take Sylvia for himself. Finally the couple is united, their union blessed by Diana.

Kenneth MacMillan had long wanted to set Stravinsky's vivid 1928 ballet score Le Baiser de la f?e (The Fairy's Kiss) when in 1960 he finally had his chance. Stravinsky's music is an homage to Tchaikovsky and 19th-century classical ballet. MacMillan followed suit, drawing on his considerable expertise in classical ballet to create a work that overtly recalls choreography by Marius Petipa and MacMillan's immediate forebear Frederick Ashton - while also bearing MacMillan's own distinctive stamp.

Indrani Mukherjee is one of the finest classical vocalists performing today. In this intimate baithak (traditional floor seated concert) she will perform night time ragas into the small hours, accompanied by Sanju Sahai on tabla and Milind Kulkarni on the harmonium.

Seeta Patel is a dynamic young British talent, highly acclaimed for her skill, unique perspective and contemporary presentation style she brings to the beautiful and ancient South Indian classical art form of Bharatanatyam.

In Something Then, Something Now, Seeta brings together an intimate evening of Bharatanatyam, accompanied by a live Carnatic music orchestra and featuring a stunning light design by Guy Hoare. The evening will lead the audience through the nuances of expression and technical excellence of this beautiful classical art form through Patel's interpretations of a variety of works in the Bharatanatyam repertoire.

Ukrainian ballet prodigy Sergei Polunin trained at The Royal Ballet School before joining The Royal Ballet, where he rapidly rose through the ranks, becoming their youngest principal ever.

Project Polunin is a triple bill of classical and modern pieces. The programme at Sadler's Wells will include the UK premiere of Vladimir Vasiliev's Icarus: The Night before the Flight, performed by Sergei Polunin and Natalia Osipova, and Tea or Coffee, a company piece choreographed by Andrey Kaydanovskiy. The programme will also feature the world premiere of Narcissus & Echo, a piece conceived and composed by Ilan Eshkeri and co-created with Polunin and photographer and artist David LaChapelle, together with Associate Choreographer Valentino Zuchetti and Artistic Associate Nehemiah Kish. Polunin previously collaborated with LaChapelle, performing in his interpretation of Hozier's ?Take Me to Church'. Eshkeri wrote the music for Polunin's biographical film Dancer.

This new many-layered narrative presents a fresh vision of dance belonging to both India and Europe, with originally commissioned music by Gabriel Prokofiev. Expect a visually stunning performance packed with visceral energy and choreographic virtuosity, from an international cast of exceptional dancers.

Ground-breaking dance-maker Shobana Jeyasingh brings her radical imagination to Petipa's legendary ballet La Bayad?re. More than a retelling it searches for the roots of the Bayadere herself and the allure she exerted in Europe over the centuries. The words of the celebrated French writer Th?ophile Gautier, who recorded his ambiguous impressions of Indian temple dancers in 1838, add to the rich mix of Gabriel Prokofiev's specially commissioned score to form a unique and personal work. Featuring a bold new design created by the award-winning contemporary theatre designer Tom Piper, following its premiere at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House in 2015.

For the first time DU takes over Shoreditch Town Hall with a punchy mix of dance, poetry and film. The fabulous Lisbeth Gruwez Dances Bob Dylan finally comes to London after her successful world tour; award winning dancer and choreographer (a performer in DU2016's hit show Gala) Julie Cunningham presents a bespoke performance; spoken word poet and winner of the Roundhouse Poetry Slam Vanessa Kisuule brings her compelling words to the party. And Charles Linehan's film with Lithuanian photographer Karolis Janulis, The Shadow Drone Project, described by The Times as "almost alien, beautiful", also receives its London premiere. Add a DJ (Saturday) and bar into the mix and this compilation disc of an evening wraps up DU2017 in style.

2017-10-26

2017-10-28

Shoreditch Takeover

Shoreditch Town HallShoreditch Town Hallhttp://www.whatsonstage.com/outer-london/theatres/shoreditch-town-hall_3241

When a little boy builds a snowman in his garden, little does he know what Christmas Eve has in store for him. That night, he can't sleep, so he opens the front door and amazingly the snowman has come to life. The boy shows him into a cozy home and, in return, the snowman introduces the boy to his wintry world. They join hands and fly up into the night. As they fly, other snowman from the surrounding gardens take off to join them as they travel to the Snowman's Ball where Father Christmas gives the boy a present of a scarf. Next morning, having returned home, the boy is saddened to find the snowman has melted. His tears turn to joy however when he discovers the scarf and he remembers his fantastic journey.

Stomp finds beauty and music in the mundane - from boots and bins to zippo lighters and plumber's plungers - everything including the kitchen sink becomes part of this production as a cast of 8 performers make instruments out of brooms and turn hand-clapping into conversation. With energy and toe-tapping exuberance, Stomp takes the clutter and junk of everyday life and transforms it into a theatrical event.

Multi award-winning, Svetlana Zakharova is Prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, Principal dancer & the first and only Russian Etoile Teatro alla Scala, the main guest star Grand Opera and the National Theatre, Tokyo.

In this new production Svetlana Zakharova experiments with both classic and contemporary styles as she strives for perfection in constant search for new ways of artistic expression in dance. For her programme Svetlana have chosen three ballets by three world-renowned choreographers: Yuri Possokhov (San Francisco Ballet's choreographer), alongside Patrick De Bana (Vienna State Ballet's regular choreographer and honorary member of the National Board of German Ballet and Dance Theatre Directors), and Marguerite Donlon (Irish choreographer and artistic director currently based in Berlin). Svetlana Zakharova will be accompanied with principal dancers of the Russian Ballet : Denis Rodkin, Mikhail Lobukhin, Denis Savin as well as other dancers of the Theater Bolshoi.

2017-11-20

2017-11-25

Svetlana Zakharova - Amore

London ColiseumLondon Coliseumhttp://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end/theatres/london-coliseum_1248

First performed in 2015, Untouchable is the first work for a major ballet company by the multi-award-winning Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter - a Royal Ballet project The Guardian called ?a milestone commission'. He subverted the hierarchies of traditional ballet and created Untouchable on a 20-strong corps de ballet, who slink and judder through highly energized movement - a fascinating new language born from a marriage of two very different dance styles.

Student Performance. Hofesh Shechter's first work for a major ballet company - a powerful piece for the corps de ballet - receives its first revival.

The sizzling spectacular from celebrated Cuban choreographer Nilda Guerra returns to London, in a new collaboration with acclaimed director Cal McCrystal, whose work includes One Man Two Guvnors and productions with Cirque du Soleil. Set in the crazy chaos of Havana airport, Vamos Cuba! is an exuberant mix of traditional and modern dance styles including salsa, rumba, cha-cha-cha and reggaeton, with a live band led by Julito Padron and a cast of the hottest dancers Cuba has to offer.

Wild Card brings fresh perspectives from a new generation of dance-makers curating special evenings. Originally from Italy, choreographer and curator Gianluca Vincentini is passionate about nurturing dance artists. Curious about the entwined nature of movement and emotion, Vincentini believes that dance can reveal the complexity of our intimate connections to each other, without compromising entertainment. For Wild Card, he showcases some of the most promising dance-makers based in the North of England: Carlos Pons Guerra, Crystal Zillwood and Jamaal Burkmar (New Adventures Choreographer Award Winner). The evening also introduces Vincentini's company M?bius Dance devoted to working with early career artists.

In rural Texas, a young woman's sanity unravels in the grip of the ever-raging wind. Arthur Pita has forged a distinctive career in British dance; his disquieting narrative works tell dark and strange stories through a vivid, visceral language of movement. His award-winning adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis in 2011 for the Linbury Studio Theatre was a triumph. As well as creating works for his own company Pita has been commissioned by companies and figures from Dance East to Natalia Osipova - creating a body of work whose strangeness and imaginativeness have earned Pita the nickname 'the David Lynch of dance'.

Kenneth MacMillan made Sea of Troubles in 1988 for Dance Advance, a dance ensemble composed of former members of The Royal Ballet. He intended it as a gift to the dancers, and crafted an intimate work for just six performers. The score uses music by the 20th-century masters Webern and Martinu. MacMillan described how his ballet responded to Shakespeare: 'I have taken as a starting point the effect of the death of Hamlet's father without a literal telling of the play. With the appearance of his father's ghost, and Hamlet's realization of the need for revenge, his tormented world becomes a nightmare.'

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